Game.



J. Y. HENRY.

GAME. I APPLICATION FILED 0OT.19, 1909.

. Patented July 19, 1910 ,1 izay rangements of parts hJ (LiL Jill i\J EALMES Y. RENEE, 633 P11 GA. JIE.

Application flied Getsber 19, 1. 18%.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be itlrnown that. i, JAM-Es Eisner, citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Fililitillfil and State of Penns h'siniii, have invented certain new and useful Improveniei'is in Games, of which the folhm'ing e. specifi cat-ion.

My invention relates to on improvee grime, and more pnrticnlznrl to an improved genie ooa-Id, which is ruled or printed in an improved manner providing a field divided by heavy and light lines, into squares or paces, and providing in mid spaces. re resentetions, indicating forts, located in ii mrovcd positions on the fields.

A further object to provide an iin-' proved game in which the board is especially adapted for playing a game wherein for are represented upon the hoard or field a the board and are to he 'ce iuu'ed by suitable men or pieces moved about the field.

"i i/3th these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel of construction and combinations and. or-

as will be more i'uiiy and pointed out in the hereinafter described ciziizns. In the accompanying drawings, Figure l, is a plan. View of my improved game board; and Fig. 2, is a View illustrating one style of men, or pieces which may be used in con-- nection with my improved board.

My improved board is preferably tangiiier form, oi greater ion breadth, and provided all around iizs edge with heavy line or border 1, 1-1:" field, which is i wided iong I transverse iines 2 end arranged a..- distance apart, all of said longitudinal being parellel, weii as eli of m verse lines eo as io -iiht'i y'idc the-iii a. plurality oi: 4 field is .i'urthc;

heevy transverse 'i' 0 located appreciohiy nearer board than the center of the the central held Wlil be Specification of Let? Serial I4" t t 1 at each e space or ii, 5., and :irc orr These 'i'oris word ant rired with n em numerals. one forts having tho character 1 and the others characters increasing in numeric Value. Four 01 these "forts are located nearer one end the board, While the other four are iocat'eo nearer the opposite end of the board, all of said "forts have their opei'i e is toii'zird the nt" of in cimhined numeric es. side or the center.

torts re" resented opponents, pposite an endeavor otmfe the on the 00211;

Je shov'o. one form of ien or pieces which miliy li i rat" is each player wocid he pro with one man, such :is shown at I which Wouid represent a general. fine i on. such as shown at 10, which Wonid repr nt. 2i captain, and a phiraiiiy of men as sh n at 2.1., could icon soldiers or privates. But of com: .orins of men or pieces might ntni them a he on iii-(1t. iii hind then a v of the ene:

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of the fort belongs to him. After the opponent gets four of his men in line with an office at the rear, in line with the open end of this same fort, he will recapture his own tort, and if he has a man standing in frontof the fort, it cannot captured unless the opponent has four men in line and an oiiicer. The game is usually played byproviding a bag or sack containing a number of balls, which are marked with difierent numerals, and each player draws a ball and puts it in his pocket, so that his opponent does not know what number he has drawn, then each player tries to capture the forts of the opponent in the manner above stated, and when the has captured enough of the encmys forts, the numeric value of which combined with the value of the ball he has drawn totals 30, he is the winner. His opponent notltnowing the numeric 'alue of the ball he has drawn, is confused as to the campaign his opponent is mapping out, and as his total must be exactly 30, it. gives to each player an opportunity to finesse and deceive his opponent as to just which forts he wants. The first player capturing the forts, which combined with the ball he has drawn exactly totals 30, is the Winner. In moving the men, it is preferable that the ordinary man be permitted but a single move, unless a man in frontof him to jump over, while the captain is allowed a move of four spaces in either direction, and the general a move of any number of spaces in either direction, but the minor rules of the game may be varied without departing from the invention.

These representations of forts may be captured in various ways, but preferably by umping the men one over the other, but I do not limit my invention to any particu- Jar 'ay of playing the game, nor to any particular construction of pieces or men for playing the game, but consider myself at asses;

or field divided by longitudinal and transverse lines into a plurality of spaces, transverse heavy lmes dividing said plurality of spaces into three fields, representations of forts in the alternate spaces at both ends of the board or field, representations of forts in the center field, an equal number of representations of forts being provided on both sides of the center field, and each of said representations ot' forts having one open side, the open side of every representation of a fort being toward the center of the hoard, and pieces adapted to be moved on the said spaces, substantially as set forth.

.2. A game apparatus, consisting of a board or field divided by longitudinal and trans verse lines into a plurality of spaces, transverse heavy lines under the caption dead line dividing said spaces into three fields, a series of representations of forts in the spaces as shown and described, all of said representations of forts having one open side open toward the center of the board,

each said representations of forts under the caption, Forts and each -representa'-' tion of a fort marked with a nun'ieral, and men representing ofiicers and soldiers adapted to be moved about said board to capture. said representations of forts, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I haye signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. JAMES Y. HENRY. Witnesses S. \V. FOSTER, R. H. Knnnnnn. 

